Horn \Horn\ (h[^o]rn), n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. ha['u]rn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. ke`ras, and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. [,c]iras head. Cf. {Carat}, {Corn} on the foot, {Cornea}, {Corner}, {Cornet}, {Cornucopia}, {Hart}.] 1. A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
2. The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
4. (Bot.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed ({Asclepias}).
5. Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn; as: (a) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape. ``Wind his horn under the castle wall.'' --Spenser. See {French horn}, under {French}. (b) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. ``Horns of mead and ale.'' --Mason. (c) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. See {Cornucopia}. ``Fruits and flowers from Amalth[ae]a's horn.'' --Milton. (d) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. ``Samuel took the hornof oil and anointed him [David].'' --1 Sam. xvi. 13. (e) The pointed beak of an anvil. (f) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. (g) (Arch.) The Ionic volute. (h) (Naut.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. (i) (Carp.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. (j) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. ``Joab . . . caught hold on the horns of the altar.'' --1 Kings ii. 28.
6. One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. --Thomson.
7. (Mil.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx. --Milton.
8. The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
9. (Script.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
The Lord is . . . the horn of my salvation. --Ps. xviii. 2.
10. An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural. ``Thicker than a cuckold's horn.'' --Shak.
11. the {telephone}; as, on the horn. [slang] [PJC]
12. a body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul. [PJC]
{Horn block}, the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; -- also called {horn plate}.
{Horn of a dilemma}. See under {Dilemma}.
{Horn distemper}, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn.
{Horn drum}, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water.
{Horn lead} (Chem.), chloride of lead.
{Horn maker}, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Horn mercury}. (Min.) Same as {Horn quicksilver} (below).
{Horn poppy} (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy ({Glaucium luteum}), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also {horned poppy}. --Gray.
{Horn pox} (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox.
{Horn quicksilver} (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury.
{Horn shell} (Zo["o]l.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus {Cerithium}, and allied genera.
{Horn silver} (Min.), cerargyrite.
{Horn slate}, a gray, siliceous stone.
{To pull in one's horns}, {To haul in one's horns}, to withdraw some arrogant pretension; to cease a demand or withdraw an assertion. [Colloq.]
{To raise the horn}, or {To lift the horn} (Script.), to exalt one's self; to act arrogantly. ``'Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn?'' --Milton.
{To take a horn}, to take a drink of intoxicating liquor. [Low]
Horn \Horn\, v. t. 1. To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
2. To cause to wear horns; to cuckold. [Obs.] --Shak.
A local Sandinista political official with a bull horn exhorts the crowd to turn back.
Rhino horns regrow at an average of 8cm a year. Small slivers of horn are barely distinguishable from a human fingernail. Part of the exercise was to move the rhinos to a safer area - private gameparks or farms.
The black rhinocerous has one large horn on its snout, with a smaller one behind it.
Another idea that the vets approve of is to flood the market with the huge stockpile of legally-removed rhino horn, force down the market price and thus make poaching unviable.
His three pupils today are playing Haydn, Horovitz and Cherubini on trumpet, euphonium, and French horn (7.30 BBC2).
"He'd take out his horn at the door and start on a high B-flat, coming up on the bandstand, walking with it."
After Mr. Jackson leaned on his horn, three men got out of the car and moved around toward his van.
It was a particular pleasure to hear more of Radovan Vlatkovic, a rare visitor but one of the most musical horn players in the world.
Lark asked all the CB-owning residents of Delta County to drive by and toot their horn at Betty.
In Vietnam, as elsewhere in Asia, rhino horn is used as a constituent of many different medicines, he said.
Even John Dow, the resident curmudgeon who is bringing his wheelchair and alto horn to Moscow, let a little smile slip.
A 10-year-old boy, visiting on a class trip, keeled over backward when one of these creatures blared like a French horn in his face.
Equally bizarre was the Pounds 441,500 paid for a 12th century carved 'unicorn' horn.
Power to the recording unit then was interrupted for 21 seconds before an alarm horn is heard.
He is accused of killing Dale Brantley Peeler, 30, who got out of his car to argue with two people who blew their horn at him when he paused to check his order in the drive-through lane at a Krystal restaurant last week.
Somalia, on the horn of East Africa that juts into the Indian Ocean, has been led since 1969 by the autocratic President Mohamed Siad Barre as a one-party state.
Loud stereo music may have prevented a school bus driver from hearing a locomotive warning horn moments before the train and bus collided, killing him and a young passenger, authorities said.
One of the rhinos broke a horn during the trip from Harare by way of Frankfurt, West Germany.
Oscar Peterson, Carmen McRae, Benny Carter and other jazz greats gathered last June to pay tribute, on his 70th birthday, to the man with the rubber cheeks and the tip-tilted horn.
And those kids you see hustling a horn around the Quarter, well their daddies were in my band.
The hares who follow the pack to keep track of stragglers sound a horn, and all run toward the next checkpoint to restart the process.
A horn also gave a bored and homesick soldier something to carve on during long days of idleness.
The horn, located in the center of the steering wheel, can be torn or bitten off by a child.
Pay five dirhams and the charmer will bang the tambourine while a companion tootles on a horn, and the snake slithers and pokes its forked black tongue.
Consumers are urged to remove the horn immediately from the steering wheel by grasping the horn with pliers and pulling it out.
Consumers are urged to remove the horn immediately from the steering wheel by grasping the horn with pliers and pulling it out.
"Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix took us on tour as opening act before we had a record," Parazaider said, recalling that Hendrix told him, "Your horn section is like one set of lungs and your guitar player is better than me."
The alarm, which in some planes sounds a loud horn and in others a computerized voice, often is the last defense against a pilot's oversight, aviation experts say.
The table is set for 48 guests; over 300 plates, dishes, tureens, candlesticks and the like adorn its snow white cloth. Dominating the whole setting is a grand surtout or centrepiece complete with finely modelled hounds, hunting horn and dead game.
Zimbabwe has frequently accused senior figures in Zambian political and business life of funding cross-border poaching forays for valuable rhino horn and ivory.